Elfriede Jelinek is an Austrian playwright and novelist, born in 1946 in Murzzuschlag, Austria, and one of the most decorated living authors writing in German. She received the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy citing her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's cliches and their subjugating power." Her work, often formally experimental and confrontational, addresses subjects including violence against women, sexuality, Austria's troubled relationship with its own Nazi-era past, and the mechanisms of social conformity, making her one of the most significant and controversial contemporary playwrights of the German language.
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born 20 October 1946) is an Austrian playwright and novelist.
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born 20 October 1946) is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She is one of the most decorated authors to write in German and was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature for her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power".
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Elfriede Jelinek is an Austrian playwright and novelist, born in 1946 in Murzzuschlag, Austria, and one of the most decorated living authors writing in German.
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